The 26-year-old Australian actress played Jed Marshall in the hit BBC One series last year, and admitted that she would never play a one-dimensional female character.

“Jed was quite lacking in dimension. I just don’t think she was his [John le Carré] focus. Also, in that genre, women just become a strange projection of male fantasy, they don’t seem to think or feel anything," Elizabeth told Radio Times.

"I wouldn’t know how to play a role like that, I’m more of a mining actress, trying to find what’s underneath and bring it out.

“Susanne [Bier, the director] would never have put a female role in a spy show who wasn’t multi-dimensional, who didn’t have an inner life. It worked with Olivia and it felt quite organic while we were doing it."

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The Night Manager: Elizabeth Debicki reveals she had to make Jed Mashall MORE interesting

We didn’t sit down and say, ‘We’ve got to make that character interesting,’ she just became interesting.

Elizabeth Debicki

The popular TV and film star added that the success of Jed as an interesting character was thanks to having a supportive director.

“We didn’t sit down and say, ‘We’ve got to make that character interesting,’ she just became interesting. It’s partly Susanne herself, a woman so full of love and her own secrets, and deeply intelligent.

“It’s an interesting thing with film and TV, you can never judge what the climate is, what the world is doing at that moment, for the show to make that kind of impact.”

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Penned as the new Night Manager, Paramount TV and The Ink Factory are teaming up to create the new series.

Ink Factory co-CEO Simon Cornwell said: "On the heels of The Night Manager, we look forward to developing a further Le Carré novel for a global television audience. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold is one of the greatest espionage stories ever told.

"It is an utterly gripping story, and one of the great books of the twentieth century. We are looking forward enormously to bringing it to a twenty-first century audience."

The full interview can be seen in the latest issue of Radio Times, which is out now.